Things to blame
-fast action video games where you have lots of lives
-the younger generation being more entitled
-A bad transport system, that is actively trying to stop traffic, more obstacles, closing 4 lanes to 2 lanes, major routes that should of been 6 to 8 lanes 30 years ago, short exit ramps and merge lanes. Because of traffic everyone stays 1 car length behind the car in front (so nobody gets in-between).
-the driver's ignorance that traffic behind them want to pass.
-on the trans Canada, people drive 10 km/h over the speed limit in the passing lane and just continue on, not paying attention to the flow of traffic behind them. It would also help if the slow lane stayed 3-5 car lengths separation so that people can pull over and let cars pass. The rule of the road is to keep right except to pass. When passing at 10km/h over it takes about 3 minutes to pass a car.
If a car is behind you let them pass on the highway.
If your car is slow and can't go within 20 km/h of the speed limit you shouldn't be driving on the highway.
Let just say having 8 lanes will improve the trans Canada. Put a speed limit of 130 in the 2 inner passing lanes. Cameras up for cars weaving in the slower lanes, maintain a distance of 4 car lengths minimun at speed. At 130, within 2 years all the idiots should be dead. (well I can hope). The new policy for high speed crashes, fiqure out who caused it and push that vehicle into the ditch....and come back later when they are dead.
I was walking by the MEC in Victoria, I got a walk sign and started walking across the cross walk (at Johnson street), so its a one way at the corner of the MEC there. So all the traffic is stopped, I walk across the road, and this truck with a lady was driving almost hits me at the far side (she was trying to turn right on the red). The thing was she was about 1.5 car lengths from the stop line and floors her vehicle and sees me and slams on the brakes, she stops with the driver's window right in front of me.
So even cross walks are not safe....
So in the past year or so I have almost been hit by a truck and an bicycle on a crosswalk when they should of been paying more attention to the road and traffic signs and lights....
A Car is a 1500 pound weapon. When driving you are not to have any distractions like cell phones, both ears with ear buds in them, people behaving wildly in the car etc. If people are distracting you, pull over and tell them to walk....
Some guy made a song with the line "If I had a rocket launcher..."